Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Disney’s ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Aristocats’ get racism advisories
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Classic Disney animated movies "Peter Pan," "The Aristocrats" and "Dumbo" have been given content advisory notices warning viewers that they contain outdated or stereotyped dep...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. coronavirus cases surpass eight million as infections spike nationwide
By Anurag Maan and Shaina Ahluwalia (Reuters) - U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus crossed 8 million on Thursday, rising by 1 million in less than a month, as another surge in cases hits the nation a...
Oct 15, 2020
Biden tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday: campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tested negative for the coronavirus on Thursday, his campaign said in a statement, after Biden flew earlier this week with a person w...
Oct 15, 2020
China’s turbo-charged online fashion takes on Zara and H&M
By Sonya Dowsett and Sophie Yu MADRID/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Shein may be the biggest shopping site you've never heard of. The fast-fashion player is encroaching on the territory of more establis...
Oct 15, 2020
White supremacist pleads guilty in plot to blow up Colorado synagogue
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A self-described white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime and explosive charges for a botched plot to blow up a historic Colorado synagogu...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Justice official accuses Barr of ‘scorn for apolitical prosecutors’
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A recently retired federal prosecutor in California on Thursday became the third career Justice Department official to claim in a recent newspaper letter or op...
Oct 15, 2020
No need for Biden to quarantine after flying with person who tested positive for COVID-19: campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden flew on an airplane with a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 but Biden was not in close contact with the pers...
Oct 15, 2020
Fundraising lifts Democrats in final weeks of U.S. election campaign
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats hoping to capture the U.S. presidency and the Senate have seen a wave of cash from small donors come their way in the final months before the Nov. 3 ...
Oct 15, 2020
Biden to raise $2.4 trillion from taxes over a decade: analysis
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden would raise $2.4 trillion in new federal government revenue over the next decade, largely from tax hikes on corp...
Oct 15, 2020
Judge puts on hold Texas’ limit on drop boxes for absentee ballots
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Thursday lifted an order by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that limited counties to a single drop-off location for absentee ballots in the Nov. 3 presidentia...
Oct 15, 2020
